Project Based Portfolio Supervisor

Job Location: Los Angeles

Salary: 65K/yr

WHO ARE WE?

Founded in 2004, Brilliant Corners provides innovative housing and housing-related services to California’s most vulnerable individuals, with an emphasis on those transitioning from, or at risk of, homelessness or institutionalization. We develop, own, and manage multi-family supportive housing and licensed residential care homes, and implement a broad array of scattered-site, one-on-one supportive housing, and clinical case management programs through partnerships with developmental services, homeless services, veterans’ services, and health care sectors.

In short, we do good work.

We have offices statewide with a staff of passionate people. While we are growing rapidly, we are also selective: We’re seeking inspired, talented people who want to effect profound change and who have fun doing it.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool (FHSP) is a supportive housing rental subsidy program of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS), along with other governmental partners, managed care organizations, and philanthropy. The goal of the FHSP is to secure quality affordable housing for vulnerable Angelenos. Brilliant Corners, the central coordinating community-based partner for FHSP, works to secure a broad range of housing options, including individual apartments, blocks of units, or entire buildings. Brilliant Corners identifies and secures units countywide, provides move-in assistance and rental subsidy disbursements, coordinates with case managers, and assists with neighborhood relations.

WHAT IS A PROJECT BASED PORTFOLIO SUPERVISOR?

Working under the direction of the Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool Housing Manager – PBV Pipeline, the  Project-Based Portfolio Supervisor position plays a key role as a member of the Housing Team.

The Project-Based Portfolio Supervisor will assist the Housing Manager in procuring permanent supportive housing rental units and manage and track project-based developments in the County of Los Angeles and in surrounding areas. Additionally, the Project-Based Portfolio Supervisor will be responsible for importing, updating, and maintaining accurate data on Salesforce and running reports for internal and external stakeholders.

The Project-Based Portfolio Supervisor provides critical portfolio management support by drafting and sending contract notices to property providers, amending agreements when necessary, and serving as an internal liaison to the Property Related Tenant Services and the Operations departments, supporting lease-ups and payment disbursements. The Project-Based Portfolio Supervisor will assist in hiring and supervising housing specialists who will be administrators of the MRSA data on Salesforce and other contract-related data tracking and cleaning.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

The essential duties of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assist with the procurement process for new permanent supportive housing units, ranging from drafting supporting documents, reviewing, and scoring applications, and attending site visits.
• Acquire project data for phases of development, and assist in the ongoing optimization and maintenance of databases/data systems.
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities, particularly in the areas of data tracking and data sharing.
• Reconcile and update all existing MRSA data, and create a storage system for all project-based developments.
• Attend lease-up calls and support the Property Related Tenant Services department with payment requests.
• Interview and hire candidates for housing specialist positions
• Supervise housing specialists and delegate tasks as it pertains to data management and vacancy tracking.
• Work with the Department of Health Services to track rental subsidy sources assigned to project-based units.
• Assist with reviewing and approving annual rent increases and security reimbursement for project-based sites. Work with the Data department on newly requested MRSA features needed on Salesforce.
• Work with Property Related Tenant Services to create workflows and policies for project-based sites.
• Assist the Housing Manager with MRSA-related processes such as initiating and tracking amendments and extensions.

Requirements

MINDSETS

• You like people and they like you. You find great satisfaction in working with a diverse population of people from property providers to people i